Individual recipients include the Fayette and Lewis county commissions, the Morgantown Utility Board, the Paden City Development Authority and the state Department of Environmental Protection.
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Updated on Friday, May 13, 2022 at 4:40 p.m. The governor supported Rep. David McKinley over Mooney in this week’s 2nd Congressional District Republican primary. Gov. Jim Justice is pleading with U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney to get involved in working with him and his office to help West Virginia.
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Justice C. Haley Bunn of Oceana in Wyoming County is the youngest woman to serve in the post, the court said. The ceremony was held Thursday.
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On this West Virginia Morning, Appalachian old-time music brings together numerous cultures, including African Americans and Native Americans. Yet those musicians have often been denied and overlooked. One man is working to make old-time music more available to Black musicians, but he got into it in an unusual way.
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Appalachian old-time music is a confluence of many cultural traditions, including those of Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, and the Scots-Irish. Yet the contributions of Black and Indigenous musicians have often been denied and overlooked. In Floyd County, Virginia one man is working to amplify the participation of Black musicians in old-time music.
Mountain Stage
Join us this weekend for Mountain Stage as Kathy Mattea welcomes back Sarah Harmer, who has her first new album in 10 years. We'll also hear from Ohio roots-folk artist Arlo McKinley, old-time acoustic set from Buffalo Wabs & the Price Hill Hustle, plus songwriter Taylor Rae and West Virginia bassist, singer and songwriter John Inghram and his band.
- Listen: Maia Sharp Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week, 'Whatever We Are'
- Listen: Kat Edmonson Has The Mountain Stage Song of the Week - 'Nobody Knows That'
- Listen: Joan Osborne has the Mountain Stage Song of the Week, "Shake Your Hips"
- Listen: Janis Ian has the Mountain Stage Song of the Week, "At Seventeen."
Inside Appalachia
This week, we begin our journey throughout Appalachia in Floyd County, Virginia, home of Earl White. Then, we’ll travel back to the early 20th century, when nurse Mary Breckenridge launched a midwifery program in Eastern Kentucky. We’ll also meet two student reporters at the Fayette Institute of Technology, who bring us stories about Anstead, West Virginia, and finally, we meet journalist Kim Kelley, who recently authored “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor,” to learn about the pro-Union history of Appalachian people.
More Stories
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a lawsuit with 16 other states to challenge a decision from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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In a filing with the PSC on Friday, the county cites statewide consumer impact: The rate increase would add $18 a month to the average residential customer’s monthly bill.
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Active COVID-19 cases in West Virginia have quadrupled in the past month.
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Retired miners in West Virginia are calling on Sen. Joe Manchin to protect the fund that pays for their health care.
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The National Science Foundation awarded Marshall University a $366,624 grant to study tardigrades in a partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Flooding last weekend caused two barges in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Park to break loose and float down the Potomac River in the Eastern Panhandle.
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